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Ward Clerk
The closing date is 02 September 2025
We are looking for a Ward Clerk to join the Children's Ward Clerk team in Colchester Hospital on a part time basis. The role will involve working with experienced ward clerks on the Children's Outpatient Department.
Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a friendly manner as you will be communicating with a wide variety of people. You will be hard working, highly motivated and have the ability to work on your own initiative.
This is part time 22.5 hours per week, fixed term/ secondment post until 31st December 2025. Possibility to extend to March 2026
The post can close earlier if sufficient amount of applications received.
Main duties of the job
Consistent provision of higher level, comprehensive and efficient secretarial and administrative support. To utilise and incorporate the required technology/hospital systems including Big Hand/PAS/Evolve/Lorenzo and any other new technology or system(s) that are introduced including demand/capacity tools.
To provide a role in the smooth organisation of the department and an advanced secretarial/administration service to the medical teams. Using own initiative, managing, prioritising, planning and organising own time using extensive knowledge, skills and experience.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
* Confident keyboard skill and or word processing, computer literate
* Working in an office environment
* Work involving contact with members of the public
* Previous NHS experience with Portal/Lorenzo systems
Qualifications
* Minimum of GCSE English and maths
* Knowledge of Microsoft Word + Excel
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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